[Mister X]

TGP software can be had for free or close to it or you can spend a couple thousand on it. It all depends on what you want it to do.

As a general rule tgps are a big pain in the ass to run and to get going to where you have decent traffic. You need to actually check each and every gallery that is submitted to you for cheaters who redirect and use malicious code, etc. Some of that can be automated by the tgp submission software checking the code of the page when it is submitted. Then there is the problem of guys that change the page after it gets accepted so a tgp script that spiders listed galleries at intervals and compares what is there to what was submitted is useful.

Even with a really topline script you still need to manually check the galleries that make it through the checking. There are many guys out there that submit galleries with a random description to random categories. They use dozens of domain names and dozens of subdomains and hundreds of email addresses. Some even use proxy servers so you can't blacklist their ip. When a surfer checks a few teen galleries and gets pornstar pics from the 70's and 40 year old russian chicks he goes looking somewhere else.

Then there is the problem of actually getting people to submit galleries to you so that you have something to check. You can register with one of the sites that have auto-submission sytems and get them that way but often the benefits are less than the drawbacks from a drastically increased amount of cheater galleries to weed out. If you don't do that then you have to work to get the attention of the guys that submit good galleries and make them decide it is worthwhile to submit to you. It's kind of a catch-22 situation. The more surfer traffic you have the more good submitters will want to submit to your site. But to get good traffic you need good galleries, hehe.

One thing that almost all tgps do now is to list their own galleries. Either ones that you build yourself or hosted galleries from whatever sponsors you like. When you do that it's nice to have a tgp script that will rotate these galleries for you so that it isn't always the same ones showing up.

There are ways to get around the problem of getting and checking submissions. You can basically cut and paste links from someone else's tgp. It's better if you do it with their permission because most tgps use traffic trading scripts that mean you would have to strip out the extra code from the urls before using them. The tgps that let you use their gallery lists will provide you with clean html to cut and paste. I think a couple even let you use javascript to call the lsit from their site and you don't even have to cut/paste. Richardsrealm.com is the only tgp I can recall at the moment that has a gallery sharing program. In return for the use of the gallery list you either have to provide a link to them or you have to let some of your traffic be skimmed off for their purposes.

As a general rule it takes more than 6 months to get any kind of good traffic going through a tgp. You might want to consider an alternate form of free site.

Their are link lists which are similar to a tgp but instead of posting links to galleries they post links to other sites. Such as tgps, pay sites, etc.

There are also free sites that are made up of a number of galleries that rotate on a daily or weekly basis. These ones are easy to set up because you can use all your own stuff. Either with your own content or with galleries made up of sponsor content. In fact many sponsor programs will let you d/l a prebuilt gallery in a zip file. You have the option of using all kinds of galleries or only a certain niche. The nich principle also applies to the tgp and linklist free sites.

Depending on where you live and where your server is located this type of site can be more risky because it isn't really possible to restrict users of a free site to adults in any way that is currently proven to conform with US laws. Their are one or 2 "electronic signature" methods out there but to my knowledge they have not been tested in court and so are unproven. It is generally accepted that a site that has a small amount of free preview content after a warning page (paysite) is generally less likely to run into legal trouble than a large site with a lot of free content.

Another type of free site is a review site. It is exactly what you might think. A list of reviews of other sites. Jane's List is that kind of free site. This type of site can provide more interactivity for surfers. You can use a portal system where the members are allowed to submit their own reviews. There are several free/cheap portal systems out there. It also has the advantage of not providing a large amount of free content. Usually a few free samples at most and they can be restricted to softer stuff.

So there are a ton of different ideas for free sites. Since I'm not planning on writing a book I'll leave it at that.

Good Luck